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This article, which appeared in The Baton, echoes the sentiment Still
wanted to get across and is repeated in a large portion of his writings: the
days are over when an African American can do things that are "pretty good for
a colored man." Still goes on to state that the handicap facing African
American composers is not the lack of ability but the same handicap facing all
African Americans regardless of their fields: prejudice and restrictions.
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